Friday, March 1, 2013

Caltrans will fully close one direction of I-5 each night on Sunday, March 3, Wednesday March 6 and Sunday, March 10 between the San Gabriel River Freeway (Interstate 605) and the Artesia Freeway (State Route 91).

Demolition work began on 2/24 with deck removal. Next week, we'll remove the bridge girders and bents. Here's what the Shoemaker Avenue Bridge looks like today:

The closure schedule is: Full Freeway Closure: S/B I-5 Sunday March 3 from 11 p.m. to 5 a.m.
• Southbound I-5 only from San Antonio/Norwalk Blvd to Rosecrans Avenue.
All southbound I-5 traffic must exit at the San Antonio/Norwalk Blvd. off-ramp.
Motorists can re-enter Southbound I-5 at Carmenita Road on-ramp.
• Connector Closure: the southbound I-605 connector to southbound I-5

The full closures allow crews to continue to safely demolish the Shoemaker Avenue Bridge, as part of the $214 million I-5 HOV/Rosecrans-Bloomfield-Shoemaker Bridges Project to add one carpool lane and one general purpose lane.